The Gates of Hell : : An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union.

• Author: Heise, Matthew.
• Place / Publishing House: Ashland : : Faithlife Corporation,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Prayer for Martyrs -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: A World in Flux: War, Revolution, and Reformation -- Chapter 2: "The Church Is Separated from the State": The Bolsheviks Take Power -- Chapter 3: "Any Proof of Brotherly Love": Finding a Way to Aid Russia -- Chapter 4: A Powerful, Invisible Hand from the Dark: The Malevolent Might of the Cheka -- Chapter 5: The "Religious NEP": The Departure of the ARA and the NLC's Struggle to Continue -- Chapter 6: A Fir Tree with Two Peaks: The First All-Russian Lutheran Synodical Convention -- Chapter 7: Servants in His Vineyard: A Bible School Is Born in the USSR -- Chapter 8: "Hold Fast What You Have": The Status of the Lutheran Church in 1926 -- Chapter 9: "Unbelievable Elasticity": Managing Relations with Church and State in 1927 -- Chapter 10: "They Would Not See His Face Again": A Last Synod and Mission Festival -- Chapter 11: "A Declaration of a Relentless Struggle": The Battle against Religion Is Joined -- Chapter 12: "He … Shall Think to Change the Times and the Law": Stalin's First Five-Year Plan Gets Underway -- Chapter 13: "Faithful to Him to the Grave": Inspiring a New Generation of Believers -- Chapter 14: A Somber Christmas: Arrests and Interrogations -- Chapter 15: The Church Is Broken: The Koch Trial and the Decision in the Hansen-Muss Case -- Chapter 16: Sheep among Wolves: The Servant of the Church as Enemy of the State -- Chapter 17: "Stand and Eat, You Still Have a Long Way to Go": Words and Prayers of Encouragement -- Chapter 18: "Stuck Deep in Snow and Ice": The Spiritual Life of the Church in Late 1931 and Early 1932 -- Chapter 19: A Sad and Muddled Affair: Conflicts in the Church as OGPU Pressure Intensifies.

Chapter 20: "Harvest of Sorrow": Seminary Struggles, Famine, and the Recognition of the Soviet Union -- Chapter 21: "A Martyr to the Cause": The Tragedy of the Meiers -- Chapter 22: "A Small Crowd Armed with Courage": More Arrests and the Closing of the Seminary in 1934 -- Chapter 23: The Pulse of the Church Grows Weaker: The Kirov Terror and the Most Difficult Year since 1929 -- Chapter 24: They Could Do No Other: The Closing of Jesus Christ Lutheran Church -- Chapter 25: "Fellow Citizens with the Saints": The Death of John Morehead and Departure of Arthur Malmgren -- Chapter 26: "Thousands of Seeds … Cast to the Wind": Shadows of the Great Terror -- Chapter 27: The NKVD Big Lie: Linking the Russian Lutheran Church to Hitler -- Chapter 28: "Blessed Are They that Suffer Persecution for Justice's Sake": The Great Terror and the Destruction of the Lutheran Pastorate in the USSR -- Chapter 29: Heroes of Faith in the Gulag: Re-Arrests and Deaths in the Camps -- Chapter 30: Last Christmas in Leningrad: Erasing Three Centuries of Lutheran Presence -- Chapter 31: Under the Watchful Eye of the NKVD: Being German Proves Fatal -- Epilogue: The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail against the Church -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Gallery -- Bibliography -- Archives and Libraries Used -- Subject Index.